Say It With an Emoji: 10 Text-Free Phrases to Describe Spring 2016

There’s no denying that we’re living in a digital world and this season’s runway looks are suited for digital girls. On the runway, that reality played out with techno-fabrications and Instagram-ready styling tricks, but the digitization of fashion affects our daily lives, too. Case in point: the shorthand way we now communicate with each other. Now is an era in which the hashtag #FOMO is as popular as off-the-shoulder tops, and dancing-girls emoji can represent anything from a street style twinning moment to actual twins on the catwalk. In that spirit, we present 10 emoji shorthands for the Spring 2016 season that will come in handy when discussing your favorite shows, trends, and beauty moments. Find them below and text them at your own will.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum weren’t the only Italian attractions to appear at Dolce & Gabbana—Italy’s delicious lemons were also repurposed as dangling earrings and as adornment on headbands.

Real airport terminals might not be as chic as Chanel’s imagined version, but should you ever find yourself walking to your gate alongside Brad Kroenig and Baptiste Giabiconi, you’ll know which string of emoji to use.

Lights! Camera! Marc Jacobs! The designer’s celebration of the American stage and screen during New York Fashion Week gave us ample opportunity to use some of the lesser-loved emoji out there, from the trumpet to the old-fashioned film camera.

At Alexander McQueen, Sarah Burton crafted embroidered tops made from a veritable garden of blooms to go along with her torn and shredded jeans. Never did the flower and denim emoji get put to such gorgeous use.

You’ll likely use all your fingers and some toes to count the number of exciting hair accessories on the runway this season, though we’d sum it up best with a string of three emoji: the pigtailed girl, the bow, and the glittering crystal.

You’ll need to employ all the construction emoji you can find to describe Jeremy Scott’s “Model Xing” set at Moschino.

Amalie and Cecilie Moosgaard, Lia and Odette Pavlova, and Ruth and May Bell are just a sampling of the model twins that made headlines this season. There’s no better time to break out the twin emoji . . .

Among John Galliano’s blue-haired and silver-speckled catwalkers at Maison Margiela were a handful of male models—Vincent Beier, Maarten Convens, Carl Hjelm Sandqvist, and Théo Bianconi—dressed to blend in with the women. And how better to express your love of Galliano’s artful gender-bending than by imagining Bianconi’s geisha-inspired ensemble in pictograph form?